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...most highly coveted free agents in recent memory, virtually no one has led a bad team to success. Rather, players like Alex Rodriguez kept a bad Rangers team bad while threatening to drive Tom Hicks to bankruptcy. Miguel Tejada and Javy Lopez signed huge deals last winter, but only improved Baltimore’s win total by seven...
...perhaps because they had heard that he wanted to be traded to only the Yankees and that George Steinbrenner, of course, lusted after åhim. Theo Epstein was able to put together a package to acquire Schilling, and his next move waså to attempt to acquire Alex Rodriguez from the Texas Rangers and rid himself of the albatross of a contract that the Red Sox owed to Manny Ramirez...
Despite a long and public courtship, the deal fell apart and the Yankees swept in at the 11th hour and were able to pry Rodriguez away from the Rangers in exchange for second baseman Alfonso Soriano...
...entangled in a live power line. His father tried to save him, and then the two other boys rushed to help. All four were electrocuted. "I've lost all the males in my family," sobbed daughter Lea, 19, who now lives in a temporary shelter in the town of Rodriguez. Arroyo called for a crackdown on the highly lucrative lumber trade that has stripped the mountains. Millions of hectares of forest have disappeared in recent decades-and the Philippines is reminded every year how hazardous it is to fool around with Mother Nature...
...former teen mom, Rodriguez felt the reality of the up close and personal view of these mother’s lives reminded her of how she “went around numb,” so ashamed that the first person she told she was pregnant was her doctor in the delivery room...